With all the craziness of starting a new school year at home plus my daughter's first day of college, the Gratitude Community passed by the wayside last week. But I still trudge along the pilgrim pathway to 1000 Gifts, passing by #300 this week--nearly a third of the way yet planning to go much further than a mere thousand....
Thanking God for:
296. ...the blessedness, craziness, zaniness, and beauty of homeschooling....
297. ...a good first week for Elizabeth at Point Loma Nazarene University....
298. ...a wonderful FREE online spelling program that survived Week One and may just work for us after all....
299. ...our beloved algebra tutor and second-godmother to our kids, without whom I probably wouldn't be able to educate our kids through high school....
300. ...a husband who supports home education even more than I do....
301. ...teaching foreign languages to kids when they're young. E did Latin in high school and is now taking German (with my former German prof) at PLNU after taking both German and Latin in elementary & junior high. T is starting his second year of high school German after learning Latin and German in his earlier years. After bouncing around among German, Japanese, and Italian, J (8th grader) decided on Japanese today, after also learning Latin and German in elementary and junior high. And B, in 5th grade, is working on his second year of elementary-level German. All kids have studied Latin and Greek root words, too. So we have German 201 and Japanese 101 starting this week at LiveMocha....
302. ...deep red cherries and tea for an after-school snack....
303. ...Rachel, the lovely LJML Assistant, who hugged me and loved on my kids when we stopped by the Literature, Journalism, and Modern Languages Department at PLNU on Friday....
304. ...big steps happening in the Book of Common Prayer project with Father Acker....
305. ...a cool day today that was autumn-chilled and October-scented, despite the August calendar date....
Grateful for all gifts of God, both little and large,
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